[mythtv] Firewire: How to test input?

Jim Westfall jwestfall at surrealistic.net
Wed Feb 9 18:05:01 UTC 2005


Nate Carlson <natecars at natecarlson.com> wrote [02.09.05]:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Jim Westfall wrote:
> >sorry I think we are talking about different meanings of channel. 
> >There is the channel on your tv/cablebox and the communication channel 
> >in firewire.
> >
> >The firewire utils/libs know nothing about which channel you are tuned 
> >to on your cablebox.
> 
> Oh, I thought that the communication for the firewire box was calling the 
> pid or something - sorry, I'm very new to this! I'm not sure what channel 
> Windows is using - I just followed the directions at:
> 
> http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=403695

yeah I did that too prior to messing around in linux.

> 
> Is there any way under Linux to probe what channel it should be using?

libiec61883 will pick the first available communication channel its sees, 
usually 0.  If you run plugreport it will have channel=N.

> 
> Would it be better to take this thread to the Linux1394 list?

I think so.  I dont know much about fixing this lower level stuff.  My 
DCT-6200 just worked.

jim

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